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191 f 1 O cnyono? Fortunately, vegetables can't riot... See special section pages 5-10 iv A, Wednesday, October 29, 1997 www.weber.edusignpost Volume 60 Number 21 Lewdness recalls horror for student By Joe Bartenhagcn news writer-The Signpost It was a small story on the front page of last Wednesday's Signpost. "Arrest made for lewdness" was the headline. "Weber State Police officers arrested Tuesday afternoon in connection with a string of lewdness incidents," the article started. To some, the article was a joke - a laughable incident, like the report of 'crop circles in a local farmer's field. To others, it brought back a feeling, something unsure and laid bare-an old vulnerability; a feeling they hadn't had since they were a child. "It all came flooding back to me-the horror," a Weber State University student said. "Just the description-lewdness; that doesn't express the damage it can do to a person." The WSU student didn't want to be identified. She said only her immediate family knew the story of f 14 Swing yer' partner... WSU students Ashlee Handley and Brian Brown work to master the festive Latin dancing that was a part of the celebration of the LatinoChicanoHispanic emphasis week. Student spreads WSU's nursing philosophies By Patrick Parkinson campus affairs editor-The Signpost Severe Ukrainian economic conditions, since the break up of the Soviet Union, have infected the country's medical industry in several capacities. One Weber State University student hopes what she learns at WSU over the next seven months will prepare her to travel back to her native country and initiate some change. "I hope in the future that I will inside post neWS seepage 2&3 what happened to her and her sister one summer 10 years ago on the WSU campus. "I don't go around telling these things," she said. "I haven't really dealt with it. I don't know what else you can do about it. You can't get rid of it. It's something I've tucked away." Ten years ago, the WSU student had a job that took her and her sister to the campus. It was a job they needed, a path they could not avoid. A man would follow that to the Browning Center and the union building, knowing their route, and then he would victimize them. At this point in her story, the student covered her eyes. Her eyes had been brimming with tears, but in recounting this part of the story, it suddenly became too much for her. Her voice shook, and became thick with crying, and trying, still, to talk. "I hat e the word," she said. "He'd It become the first professor of nursing over there," Nadya Yarema, a Ukrainian student in the nursing program said. Yarema is participating in a new studentfaculty exchange program. She has been in the United States for almost four months and will spend three quarters studying the second and third years of WSU's nursing program. Her dream involves someday becoming a heart surgeon. Though at editorial see page 4 always have his hand over his eyed, and he'd be masturbating." The worst part, though, would come when his eyes were no longer covered. "When you'd see his eyes, they were hollow. It was like they were hollow, like they'd suck you in," she said. 1 1 was a look that she would see many times over the course of that summer; a look that she said has never left her. "I don 't dream about it anymore." Over at the Services for Women Students in the Student services Center, coordinator Margarita Guerra said it is something she has had to help WSU students and herself come to terms with. "If it does happen to you, don't feel like it's silly - it really does have an effect on you," she said. "There is See Lewd page 14 - - t ; this point, having finished her education at Bukovinian State Medical Academy in her hometown of Chernivtsy, Ukraine, the scalpel and operating table may need to wait. "All of my professors in Ukraine at my medical academy, would like me to become the first professor of nursing over there," Yarema said. "When I first entered medical school, I didn't think about teaching." However, medical education in Ukraine, Yarema said, is a fundamen features see page 5 !4 4, Jmr : -V. i " A ' r John Rodsted speaks to students about the dangers of antipersonnel landmines which kill and maim over 26,000 people. International landmine outlook is bleak By Patrick Parkinson campus affairs editor-The Signpost Imagine Ogden as a bloody war zone. Its vast mountains providing ideal terrain for guerrilla warfare, as enemy factions infest the soil with thousands, perhaps millions of deadly mines. Conflict has likely upstaged the need to go to school, but as you and some friends attempt to loot vegetables from someone's garden, you turn to see your pal blown five meters into the air and realize her legs have vanished. "If you saw your friend blow up in front of you, obviously there's mines around, would you feel very good about walking in there, picking them up and dragging them out?" asked John Rodsted, of a group gathered Tuesday for a presentation about land mines. There are about 1 10 million active land mines in the ground worldwide. Designed to maim, land mines have been responsible for the deaths and crippling of over one million citizens throughout the world. Rodsted, a photojournalism has spent a lot of time tal place to begin moving toward a system more like that of the United States. "It seems to me the main aim and goal of a professor is to be there for the students," she said, "to show them his or her abilities and possibilities." "Sometimes our professors are much more impatient than yours." Yarema was surprised by differences existing in education between Ukraine and the United States. She said the skills of nurses in Ukraine SpOftS see page 12 analyzing the planet's land mine situation. He has immersed himself in the fight to ban land mines and has witnessed first-hand the tragedy associated with these elusive killers. "What's wrong with land mines as opposed to any other weapon?" he asked. "I'll answer that by simply saying two words: random and indiscriminate."Often mines are placed in the ground and forgotten about. They are an untargeted weapon, he said, that define their enemies upon detonation. "Land mines work beautifully. They do exactly what they are designed to do," Rodsted said. Unfortunately a mine can not select who to destroy. Not much criteria exists for deciding whose limb to annihilate next. "It doesn't care if it's a soldier the next day or if it's a kid ten years later or if it's a farmer or somebody trying to collect wood or rebuild their home," Rodsted said. He and five other activists are touring the United States attempting See Mines page 1 1 to Ukraine are more primitive and utilized much less than in the United States. "Our physicians work much harder in comparison with yours," she said. She said where American physicians may visit a patient once every three or four days, a Ukrainian physician will spend a chunk of everyday with each patient. The role of nurses in this schema, obviously be- See Ukraine page 14 Classifieds . . . .see page 15

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191 f 1 O cnyono? Fortunately, vegetables can't riot... See special section pages 5-10 iv A, Wednesday, October 29, 1997 www.weber.edusignpost Volume 60 Number 21 Lewdness recalls horror for student By Joe Bartenhagcn news writer-The Signpost It was a small story on the front page of last Wednesday's Signpost. "Arrest made for lewdness" was the headline. "Weber State Police officers arrested Tuesday afternoon in connection with a string of lewdness incidents," the article started. To some, the article was a joke - a laughable incident, like the report of 'crop circles in a local farmer's field. To others, it brought back a feeling, something unsure and laid bare-an old vulnerability; a feeling they hadn't had since they were a child. "It all came flooding back to me-the horror," a Weber State University student said. "Just the description-lewdness; that doesn't express the damage it can do to a person." The WSU student didn't want to be identified. She said only her immediate family knew the story of f 14 Swing yer' partner... WSU students Ashlee Handley and Brian Brown work to master the festive Latin dancing that was a part of the celebration of the LatinoChicanoHispanic emphasis week. Student spreads WSU's nursing philosophies By Patrick Parkinson campus affairs editor-The Signpost Severe Ukrainian economic conditions, since the break up of the Soviet Union, have infected the country's medical industry in several capacities. One Weber State University student hopes what she learns at WSU over the next seven months will prepare her to travel back to her native country and initiate some change. "I hope in the future that I will inside post neWS seepage 2&3 what happened to her and her sister one summer 10 years ago on the WSU campus. "I don't go around telling these things," she said. "I haven't really dealt with it. I don't know what else you can do about it. You can't get rid of it. It's something I've tucked away." Ten years ago, the WSU student had a job that took her and her sister to the campus. It was a job they needed, a path they could not avoid. A man would follow that to the Browning Center and the union building, knowing their route, and then he would victimize them. At this point in her story, the student covered her eyes. Her eyes had been brimming with tears, but in recounting this part of the story, it suddenly became too much for her. Her voice shook, and became thick with crying, and trying, still, to talk. "I hat e the word," she said. "He'd It become the first professor of nursing over there," Nadya Yarema, a Ukrainian student in the nursing program said. Yarema is participating in a new studentfaculty exchange program. She has been in the United States for almost four months and will spend three quarters studying the second and third years of WSU's nursing program. Her dream involves someday becoming a heart surgeon. Though at editorial see page 4 always have his hand over his eyed, and he'd be masturbating." The worst part, though, would come when his eyes were no longer covered. "When you'd see his eyes, they were hollow. It was like they were hollow, like they'd suck you in," she said. 1 1 was a look that she would see many times over the course of that summer; a look that she said has never left her. "I don 't dream about it anymore." Over at the Services for Women Students in the Student services Center, coordinator Margarita Guerra said it is something she has had to help WSU students and herself come to terms with. "If it does happen to you, don't feel like it's silly - it really does have an effect on you," she said. "There is See Lewd page 14 - - t ; this point, having finished her education at Bukovinian State Medical Academy in her hometown of Chernivtsy, Ukraine, the scalpel and operating table may need to wait. "All of my professors in Ukraine at my medical academy, would like me to become the first professor of nursing over there," Yarema said. "When I first entered medical school, I didn't think about teaching." However, medical education in Ukraine, Yarema said, is a fundamen features see page 5 !4 4, Jmr : -V. i " A ' r John Rodsted speaks to students about the dangers of antipersonnel landmines which kill and maim over 26,000 people. International landmine outlook is bleak By Patrick Parkinson campus affairs editor-The Signpost Imagine Ogden as a bloody war zone. Its vast mountains providing ideal terrain for guerrilla warfare, as enemy factions infest the soil with thousands, perhaps millions of deadly mines. Conflict has likely upstaged the need to go to school, but as you and some friends attempt to loot vegetables from someone's garden, you turn to see your pal blown five meters into the air and realize her legs have vanished. "If you saw your friend blow up in front of you, obviously there's mines around, would you feel very good about walking in there, picking them up and dragging them out?" asked John Rodsted, of a group gathered Tuesday for a presentation about land mines. There are about 1 10 million active land mines in the ground worldwide. Designed to maim, land mines have been responsible for the deaths and crippling of over one million citizens throughout the world. Rodsted, a photojournalism has spent a lot of time tal place to begin moving toward a system more like that of the United States. "It seems to me the main aim and goal of a professor is to be there for the students," she said, "to show them his or her abilities and possibilities." "Sometimes our professors are much more impatient than yours." Yarema was surprised by differences existing in education between Ukraine and the United States. She said the skills of nurses in Ukraine SpOftS see page 12 analyzing the planet's land mine situation. He has immersed himself in the fight to ban land mines and has witnessed first-hand the tragedy associated with these elusive killers. "What's wrong with land mines as opposed to any other weapon?" he asked. "I'll answer that by simply saying two words: random and indiscriminate."Often mines are placed in the ground and forgotten about. They are an untargeted weapon, he said, that define their enemies upon detonation. "Land mines work beautifully. They do exactly what they are designed to do," Rodsted said. Unfortunately a mine can not select who to destroy. Not much criteria exists for deciding whose limb to annihilate next. "It doesn't care if it's a soldier the next day or if it's a kid ten years later or if it's a farmer or somebody trying to collect wood or rebuild their home," Rodsted said. He and five other activists are touring the United States attempting See Mines page 1 1 to Ukraine are more primitive and utilized much less than in the United States. "Our physicians work much harder in comparison with yours," she said. She said where American physicians may visit a patient once every three or four days, a Ukrainian physician will spend a chunk of everyday with each patient. The role of nurses in this schema, obviously be- See Ukraine page 14 Classifieds . . . .see page 15